Step 1
Find the catalog
Search BeatsBackground on Songtradr. Browse by album or audition individual tracks for lobby, restaurant, spa and in-room video.
Hotels
Background music for hotels that holds a lobby all day.
Instrumental lofi written to sit at one level from breakfast to last call. Licensed for hotel groups through Songtradr, with a single rightsholder so a multi-property deal is one conversation.
The short answer
Can a hotel play Spotify in the lobby?
Not on a personal account. Spotify, Apple Music and the other consumer services license music for private, non-commercial listening. A lobby, restaurant, spa or bar is a public space, so a hotel needs a commercial license for whatever plays there.
For our music, that license comes from Songtradr. It is issued for your specific use and covers both the recording and the composition, because we own both. There is no third-party label, publisher or sample owner to clear.
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Licensed by Marriott and L'Oréal.
Two brothers wrote, played and recorded the whole catalog. One rightsholder on the masters and the publishing, no samples, so Songtradr can quote and clear it fast.
Why instrumental lofi works in a hotel
- No vocals. Nothing competes with a front desk conversation or a restaurant table.
- One mix level across the catalog. Albums like Sage, May Flowers and Slow Flow were mastered to sit together, so an eight-hour playlist never lurches.
- 58 releases and nearly 500 tracks. Enough depth that regular guests and staff do not hear the same loop every week.
- Reads as considered rather than corporate. Lofi is the sound guests already choose for working and winding down.
How licensing works
Step 2
Scope the license
Songtradr quotes an in-store or sync license against your use: number of properties, territory, term. Multi-property hotel groups are a standard deal type.
Step 3
Play it everywhere on the license
Lobby, restaurant, spa, elevators, hold music, guest-facing video. One rightsholder means the paperwork is done in days, not months.
Hear it first
Audition the catalog before you open a quote.
“Strictly Lofi” runs seven hours and “Beats for Streaming” ten. Put one on in the room you are scoring and see how it sits.
The usual questions
Can we license the music for more than one hotel?
Yes. Multi-site and multi-property licensing is a standard Songtradr deal type, and hotel groups including Marriott already license the catalog this way. Start the quote with your property count and Songtradr will scope it.
Does the same license cover the spa and the restaurant?
That depends on how the license is written. Tell Songtradr every space you want covered when you request the quote, and it will be scoped to all of them.
Who owns the rights to the music?
We do. Two brothers wrote, played, recorded and mastered the entire catalog. We hold the masters and the publishing, and there are no samples, so there is nothing else to clear.
Can we hear it before we license anything?
Yes. The full catalog is on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, and the Strictly Lofi and Beats for Streaming playlists run for seven and ten hours. Play one in the lobby and listen for a day.
Is this a subscription background-music service?
No. Subscription services license the platform. Songtradr issues a license for our music tied to your use, so the rights hold up when the group audits its paperwork or the deal scales.
Ready to license it?
Search BeatsBackground on Songtradr, pick the track or the catalog, and the quote covers your territory, term and media.